Sunday Crafty Sunday - Dia De Los Muertos Non-jewelry Vendor Applicants Still Being Considered!!!

Hey Non-jewelry Vendors! We've got a great show coming up with a great opportunity to sell! The San Diego North Oark Craft Mafia's Sunday Crafty Sunday Dia De Los Muertos - Day of the Dead show at the Centro Cultural de las Raza in Balboa Park is on its way on Sunday, October 14th and we're still looking for non-jewelry applicants. If you're innovative and creative, making handmade stuff, this is the show for you! Whether you deve into pottery or dabble in the art of plants, it's a great way to get your stuff out there and show the world who you are. Love to create based on a theme, here's a great opportunity to get those creative juices flowing. Start getting your stuff together and create to your heart's content. The Dia de los Muertos theme is the way to go for this show. Plus it's a key to opening a door for a chance to be considered for our Holiday Hit List in December. All first time vendors must participate in one of our past shows to be considered for our Holiday Hit List. This is our last show before our Holiday Hit List makes it's mark in December. Remember if you're an innovative and creative non-jewelry vendor with handmade goods get your application in now before it's too late!

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Learning the Lingo

I ripped the page out of my women's magazine and hung it over my mirror when I saw a little blurb that said this:

CRAFTERMATH- The clutter left lying around after you finally make that thing you found on Pinterest. (ha-ha)

I decided to double-check the definition on the end-all-be-all of online dictionaries, urbandictionary.com (WARNING- urbandictionary.com will define any term in commom usage, even the naughty words, so beware!).  This is what they said:

CRAFTERMATH- The resulting and overwhelming mess that is left lying all about after a full day, week, or month of creative pursuits. Massive amounts of creative supplies jumbled and piled all together, all about ones workspace, making it impossible to continue crafting until cleaned and possibly preventing any inspiration whatsoever.

I think a craftermath might look a little like this:

I know my room has looked a little like this.  In fact, it kind of does right now!

If you found either quote enchanting, guess what?  You can purchase them online!  How about a vinyl wall quote for your craft room?

http://www.enchantingquotes.com/customquotes.html

Or a magnet, mug, or t-shirt?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/products.php?term=Craftermath&defid=6368334

If you have survived a craftermath- or even if you just helped create one- I would love to hear any other cute crafting puns or phrases you have picked up over the years.  My internet search didn't come up with much, and maybe we need to publish a crafter's dictionary that goes beyond bobbin, bauble, and baste.

Got any good ones?

Day of the Dead Craft Show October 14, 2012 12-5pm

Dia de los Muertos is coming soon, mark your calendars!! Let’s celebrate it more than one day! The San Diego North Park Craft Mafia Sunday Crafty Sunday show is a perfect place to get your Day of the Dead merchandise. This one day free shopping experience will be a great chance to buy local and handmade from over 20 vendors. Additionally, we will be giving away 50 decorated sugar skulls and marigolds to shoppers through the door (one per family & while supplies last). The SDNMCM’s crafty altar will be on display, and there will be a chance for visitors to make their color their own Calaveras Mask, while supplies last. Sunday Crafty Sunday, Dia de los Muertos gift bazaar will take place October 14, 2011 from 12pm-5pm at Balboa Park in the Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2004 Park Blvd, San Diego. More information about this event and the SDNPCM visit: http://www.facebook.com/events/144478085696199/

Today we are sending out our vendor application for Sunday Crafty Sunday to our Vendor list. If you would like to participate, sign up for our list. We will be sending out the vendor app weekly. Also, for first time vendors: All vendors who want to sell at our Holiday Hit List are required to have participated at one of our shows in the past. This is the last show before our Holiday Hit List, so be sure to sign up. We have limited space. Vendor newsletter sign up, click here

2011 was San Diego's first Pirate Faire, but due to venue issues it was announced early this year there would not be a 2012 event. There was a similar issue for the Long Beach Pirate Faire, the two events have since been brought together and a new location in Vista has been found. Once again called the San Diego Pirate Faire this event will include both communities of Pirates and plans to be the largest invasion of Pirates to San Diego. The Gold Coast Pirate Faire was established in 1993 and was the original West Coast gathering for Pirates and Pirate enthusiast. Mark your calender for September 15th and 16th for the Antique Gas and Steam Museum in Vista. Pirate activities, vendors, good food and classic pirate partying will commence both days from 10 to 5. Come out and see hundreds of costumes, live music and battle reenactments with grog to follow. Keep a weather eye out and you may even see a Craft Mafia Member or two amongst the vendors. So don you best tricorn and head up to Vista to experience a one of a kind pirate invasion.

Kizoa slideshow: Long Beach Pirate Invasion 2011 - Slideshow

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Something's Fishy



Glittery fish . . . a seahorse ballet . . . dancing jellyfish . . . a snapping clam  . . . an underwater adventure all rolled into one. Take a dive under the ocean with Garibaldi, as this curious little fish makes his way into a hungry whale’s mouth! Will he ever get out? Come to his rescue by helping Mama Mia free her little one from “Lazy Old Mr. Whale’s” jaws.

‘Something’s Fishy,’ produced by Millie Patterson’s Weaver’s Tales, will capture the imagination of the young and young at heart, taking them for a swim under the ocean, with its charming fish and large array of ocean life. Performed at the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater in Balboa Park in this full stage puppet show a team of five puppeteers work together to breathe life into these puppets and make a story come alive. So come see a story come to life with puppets, take a dive under the ocean and help Mama Mia save Garibaldi from being “Lazy Old Mr. Whale’s” lunch when you come to see ‘Something’s Fishy.”

"Something's Fishy"

 

By Millie Patterson's Weaver's Tales

Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater

Balboa Park

 

August 15 - 19

Wed. - Sun.

11:00 am, 1:00 pm & 2:30 pm

General Admission: $5.00

Seniors / Military: $4.00

Under 2 are free

Contact:
Marie Hitchcock
Puppet Theater
Website:
www.balboaparkpuppets.com
Box Office:
(619)544-9203 open on show days
Email: balboaparkpuppets@yahoo.com
Facebook: Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater